SgtSlaughter
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Diet manipulation.... zig zag calories throughout the week, trying different macro ratios (33/33/33, 50/20/30, 40/30/30), ect... experimentation is key with figuring out how one's body uses which fuels best.
Track what you put in your mouth on www.fitday.com or another FREE tracking website, or your own excel spreadsheet, ect.
Do not cheat... it WILL set you back.
Eat what you want to look like... lean meats, veggies, if it's shiney and blubbery... don't eat it.
Eat for your goals: Want to stay saine and not competing, clean up your diet. Take out sugary foods, increase PLAIN water intake, eat more protein rich foods.
Want to get leaner than your average joe, eat cleaner... 6 or so meals throughout the day, all whole foods except PWO/DWO shake and 1 or 2 semi-cheat (NO fast food, ect..) meals are "ok."
What to get vascular and lean - contest leaness calls for very strict, super clean diet.... NO CHEATING, ect.
^^^ GREAT posts in the women's forum.. ALOT of us should start reading there more, myself included.
- Thanks Sassy!
Had alot of diet questions, thought I'd do a little type up in relating them to goals a bit.
Track what you put in your mouth on www.fitday.com or another FREE tracking website, or your own excel spreadsheet, ect.
Do not cheat... it WILL set you back.
Eat what you want to look like... lean meats, veggies, if it's shiney and blubbery... don't eat it.
Eat for your goals: Want to stay saine and not competing, clean up your diet. Take out sugary foods, increase PLAIN water intake, eat more protein rich foods.
Want to get leaner than your average joe, eat cleaner... 6 or so meals throughout the day, all whole foods except PWO/DWO shake and 1 or 2 semi-cheat (NO fast food, ect..) meals are "ok."
What to get vascular and lean - contest leaness calls for very strict, super clean diet.... NO CHEATING, ect.
SASSY69 said:Diet: Time to set up efficient burning --- If you are just starting a new diet or made a significant change to what you are currently doing, your body needs some time to adjust to the new changes. If the diet is tuned enough so that it truly works for you (some just don't so you'd have to see how you respond) so you can't expect to change a diet or start a diet & see dramatic results immediately. Sometimes you can drop a bunch of water weight immediately, but for continued efficient burning you need to give your body enough time, keeping the diet or the change consistent for long enough for metabolism to become predictable and spot on.
Does that make any sense? The challenge is getting it consistent - this is critical to effective burning (i.e. your body has "trained" itself to expect the particular diet /schedule and is now running as if it expects to have that same schedule. If you have a food panic and throw down a bunch of crap, it throws off the expected schedule and throws your system for a loop while it tries to respond to what it didnt' expect - so in a sense it has to step back start re-expecting the consistency again -- i.e. sets back the period of successful consistency). And along with that, people tend to screw up the consistency because they haven't really established the HABIT of eating on the new program / schedule for usually 2-3 weeks. Because its foreign to them, they aren't sure if they like it, they haven't mastered managing the food panics, or the schedule is new & maybe needs to be worked on to fit into the rest of the current lifestyle.
^^^ GREAT posts in the women's forum.. ALOT of us should start reading there more, myself included.
- Thanks Sassy!
Had alot of diet questions, thought I'd do a little type up in relating them to goals a bit.